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... it's not a victory. Just not a complete and total loss. Yeah, it's sleight of hand. Not too far back, we wouldn't have even gotten that goddamn much. "At least it's something" is more than I've seen during most of my life. It's a happy surprise. Or at least less disheartening, whatever. You'll have to excuse me if I acknowledge at least that much.

Dev/debug mode? You can cheat yourself up to level 50 and teleport around to test it. Arena? There's some kind of talent point planner addon. The Everything's Unique addons current have ridiculously accelerated XP gains, so you can level up very rapidly and encounter nasty enemies to test yourself on, too.

Sa-ay. What sort of dragon would y'all want to be? McCaffrey's are decently high on the list for me, what with the telepathy, time travel, ability to survive in space for several minutes without aid, and intra-system biological FTL drive.

Pern's has some advantages, but I could do without the uncontrollable sex drive thing. And the thread. And the telepathy has some fairly significant downsides. They're pretty flimsy as dragons go, too. Also... innit their lifespan fairly limited for dragoncritters? They've got some fancy tricks, but for me they're probably not much further up the ladder than Discworld's.

Shadowrun's would definitely be up high on the list. They've got most things other sorts of dragons have going for them, and overall considerably less of the problems (which is faintly ridiculous, considering the setting they originate from). Dark Sun's wouldn't be that bad, either, really -- sure, they're fairly incredibly malevolent (and largely have to be, due to how they form), but not much actually manages to kill the things despite a lot of things trying and the whole might-as-well-be-a-god thing is pretty sweet digs. Bunch more I'm forgetting... know some of them patterned after the eastern stuff is quite appealing, but I can't remember particular settings and whatnot to note.

Pretty much any of the D&D/Krynn/etc. sort would be fairly solid, providing you actually survive up to adulthood and maybe not actually be on one of their deathworlds. Massive arcane power, functional agelessness, ability to polymorph, the whole progeny thing... if it weren't for where they live and how few of them actually get beyond wyrmhood, they'd be pretty great.

Could you imagine rush hour if you suddenly introduced vehicles significantly capable of surviving anti-tank rounds and able to breath a variety of deadly breath weapons? It would be incredible. Property values and vehicle-related deaths would plummet and skyrocket, respectively.

E: And best of all, reality TV, most sports, and the majority of news would be replaced by live feeds of major thoroughfares.

... probably the former. All things actually being equal, they're a lot less likely to effectively self-suicide their campaign by burning bridges.

-Maybe. It's irritatingly questionable. More likely than the rest of it, though. There were still early church groups that believed the guy didn't actually exist on earth :V
-Complete toss-up. Too far back to have any meaningful way of telling, so far as I can recall.
-No. Arc covered the more charitable response, and we've had the flood discussion a few times previous in thread.
-See 2.

Depends on what you mean by happened, though. As the bible itself described would be a no across the board -- the chances of actual historical figures being as described in the bible is basically nil. Too much time, too much corruption of the source, too dubious a source to begin with insofar as historical accuracy goes. That there may have been historical people or events that the biblical ones worked off afterwards has always been a possibility. A possibility that's largely unverifiable for many of the figures, but a possibility.

... that's pretty explicitly untrue, and you're fairly aware of it.

Still, we do have komodo dragons. People seem to constantly forget those. Last I checked reports, they taste pretty terrible.

Gods, no. Though that was probably more of a, "Hey, that fuzzy thing that eats what we do is eating that, let's see if it tastes good". I'm more of a "I like this and I like that, let's see what happens when you put them together" kinda' person. Not so much a random sampler of the unknown and possibly poisonous.

Nah, I just wanted to see what happened when you boil soda, and happened to have tea to put in a boiled liquid. So... why not? I like tea, I like soda, let's see what happens, thoughts I. And it turned out pretty good! Also the sugar/caffeine high lasted like six hours straight and the crash afterwards was amazing.